Artists: Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
Sansour’s most personal film to date, Familiar Phantoms draws on the artist’s family history in Russia and Palestine to give an intimate insight into how personal identity is shaped by geo-political events and how the experiences of our ancestors imprint themselves on our lives.
Jointly commissioned by the Whitworth and Film and Video Umbrella with support from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, shown at The Whitworth Gallery 2023
Artists: Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma.
Commissioned by FACT and shown as part of Let the Song Hold Us 2022
Artist: Jananne Al Ani
Timelines reveals a micro landscape in the surface of a highly decorated brass tray that originated in Iraq and is now held in the V&A Collection. The tray is said to depict events on Armistice Day, 1918, in the Iraqi town of al-Hindiyyah.
Installation showing at Towner Eastbourne 2022
Artist: Jasmina Cibc
The film addresses the concept of a political gift; a donation of artistic, architectural, political or philosophical thought to national and ideological structures.
3 channel 20 minute film first shown at macLYON 2021
Choreographer: Joe Moran
Materiality will be Rethought navigates dance’s potential to animate and disrupt architectural space, the physicality of the dancer’s voice and the moving body as a site of political unrest and complex subjectivities.
Commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, in dialogue with Carlos Bunga’s exhibition Something Necessary and Useful
Artist: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
Adopting the style of a nonnarrative documentary fiction, the film is “a chronicle of a summer” and of the relationships between three performers and their environment.
Instants of idyll are interrupted by images of the first LGBTQ pride march in Białystok, which was, de facto, a protest during which the very real threat that queer communities face is palpable.
54 minute film for Kunsthalle Basel 2019
Artist: Jasmina Cibc
2 channel film, 24 minute and 3 minute shown as part of The Pleasure of Expense winner of B3 Ben Award Best Immersive and Time Based Art 2020
Artist: Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind
28 minute 2 channel film for Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019
Artist: Jananne Al-Ani
20 minute film for permanent installation on 50 metre by 5 metre wall in Gallery 3 of the new National Museum of Qatar
Artist: Jasmina Cibic
"State of Illusion departs from the story of the last pavilion of the defunct state of Yugoslavia at an international world exposition – the Montreal EXPO 1967."
Commissioned by DHC/ART Fondation pour l’art contemporain Montreal; supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studios in the Fine Arts, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University.
Artist: Marysia Lewandowska
"Collaboratively scripted with the Taiwanese Beijing-based writer Zian Chen, the work follows on from Lewandowska’s two-year research project at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. The narrative unfolds through a dialogue between two women whose diverse backgrounds and aspirations expose sensitivities around property development and the contested ownership of museum artifacts."
Comissioned by Randi Grov Berger, Entrée Bergen
Artist: Jasmina Cibic
"The film is based on the 1958 production of Béla Bartók’s pantomime ballet The Miraculous Mandarin – the work that the Yugoslav State chose to represent its new direction on Nations Day at the Brussels EXPO almost sixty years ago. Here it is repurposed, mis-imagined and overwritten with new purpose in collaboration with the choreographer Lea Anderson."
Co-commissioned by European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead and supported by Arts Council England, Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University and Waddington Studios London.
The film was commissioned by Delfina Foundation and co directed by Kathrin Böhm and Sue Giovanni. The concept for the film emerges from Kathrin's ongoing project, Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks.
Screenings: Delfina Foundation, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, AiRM 2016, Five Oak Green Village Hall
Artist: Maeve Brennan
"In The Drift, Brennan traces the shifting economies of objects in contemporary Lebanon. The film moves between three main characters: the gatekeeper of the Roman temples of Niha in the Beqaa Valley; a young mechanic from Britel, a village known for trading automobile parts; and an archaeological conservator working at the American University of Beirut."
Shown at Chisenhale and Spike Island
Artist: Jananne Al-Ani
"By focusing on lost and redundant industrial and military sites such as oil refineries and explosives factories and by replicating the point of view of a drone in Black Powder Peninsular, I hope to offer a new perspective on the English landscape, flattening and abstracting it, rendering it unfamiliar and ‘other’, more desert-like perhaps."
Shown as part of Traces of War at King's College London
Mojisola Adebayo and the Ali Collective
Muhammad Ali and Me is the critically acclaimed coming-of-age story of a young black girl growing up in foster care and her fantastical friendship with the legendary, Muhammad Ali. Ali himself makes a guest appearance through verbatim text and original fight footage. Oval House 2008 and The Albany 2016
Artist: Rose English
3 channel video using documentary footage of rehearsals. Part of the instillation in gallery 2 at Camden Arts Centre.
Director: Charlotte Bill
No time to stand still in this short film looking into what makes a cyclist. Director Charlotte Bill decides to keep things moving as she chats to users of Herne Hill Velodrome about their passion for cycling.
Director: Sue Giovanni
Filmmaker Sue Giovanni worked alongside local people on a year-long project to research the history and personal stories of this hidden space. The film highlights the passion local people have for the subway and charts how their involvement has been integral to the history of the space.
Director: Charlotte Bill
Brixton is home to a well-known and well-loved collection of murals. If Walls Could Speak listens to those who claim ownership of these artworks; the painters and artists who made them, local residents who live with them and the next generation who will become custodians. If Walls Could Speak is an eclectic and textured film showcasing four diverse murals.
Shadow Sites II
Artist: Jananne Al-Ani
Shadow Sites II was created from high-resolution digital stills. The piece plays on the aerial vantage point of the viewer, as they travel towards an unfamiliar surface the images dissolve from one to another though the sense of falling continues.
Memento Park
Artist: Carey Young
Memento Park was shot in a statue park in Budapest containing a large collection of monumental, socialist realist Soviet statues. We see the figures surrounded by bustling contemporary life passing by outside the park, which undercuts the statues' historical importance and impressive physical impact. We are witnessing the dusk and dawn of an idyll.
Margaret Mellis, a life in colour
Director: Sue Giovanni
Margaret Mellis’s career encompassed some of the major movements of 20th Century British art. St. Ives neighbours Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo saw her talent and potential but history has relegated her to the sidelines. A dedicated abstract painter and superb colourist Margaret produced a unique body of work during her later life in Suffolk. Margaret Mellis a life in colour puts Margaret’s work centre place, a visual feast of texture, shape and colour. 65 minute documentary.
My Villages, trailers
Artists: Wapke Feenstra & Kathrin Böhm
myvillages.org together with Grizedale Arts and public works have developed the idea of a joint International Village Shop, Kiosk or Honesty Box. Customers pay what they think items are worth, putting the money in a jar on the stall. Nine trailers are being made for main products featured on the Kiosks, showing location, production and use of the products.
Yalda
Director: Esther Johnson
Made for ‘The City Speaks’, an innovative collaborative project developed by Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and BBC Radio Drama. Yalda is a colourful musical journey into the narrative of a woman's tangled past, with magical glimpses of her present world and hopes for a liberated future.
Moj of the Antarctic
Mojisola Adebayo and the Antarctic Collective
Moj of the Antarctic is inspired by the wonderful true life story of Ellen Craft, a 19th century African-American slave woman who escaped to freedom in London by disguising herself as a white man. This innovative production incorporates video, poetry, dance, music, song and original photography. Played Lyric, Oval House and toured 4 African countries with the British Council
Fem
Director: Campbell X
The film is lyrical and poetic containing images of femininity from ancient mythology and popular cinematic culture. Fem, shown at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2007 pays homage to the femme lesbian through the admiration of the butch narrator.
Legacy
Director: Campbell X
Legacy is a video installation exploring - through the relationship between video artist Inge Blackman and her mother - the legacy of slavery on intimate relationships. Commissioned by Arnolfini and Arts Council
Immortal Muse
Director: Sue Giovanni
A visual documentation of emigration, love, strength, creativity and old age.
Annette was philosophical about her migration from Nazi Berlin, via Hampstead to Devon. At 95 years of age she was not concerned about fitting in. “Berlin, I was a stranger there, but I am still stranger here!” Drawing strength from her writing and her experiences she tackled life head on...always accompanied by her oldest friend: her muse. Winner: Best documentary Lisbon Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2005.
Annette was philosophical about her migration from Nazi Berlin, via Hampstead to Devon. At 95 years of age she was not concerned about fitting in. “Berlin, I was a stranger there, but I am still stranger here!” Drawing strength from her writing and her experiences she tackled life head on...always accompanied by her oldest friend: her muse. Winner: Best documentary Lisbon Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2005.